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Subject[RFC][PATCH 4/4] cgroup-memcg fix frequent EBUSY at rmdir
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Experimental. you may think of better fix.

When trying following test under memcg.

create memcg under
/cgroup/A/ use_hierarchy=1, limit=20M
/B some tasks
/C empty
/D empty

And run make kernel under /B (for example). This will hit limit of 20M and
hierarchical memory reclaim will scan A->B->C->D.
(C,D have to be scanned because it may have some page caches.)

Here, run following scipt.

while true; do
rmdir /cgroup/A/C
mkdir /cgroup/A/C
done

You'll see -EBUSY at rmdir very often. This is because of temporal refcnt of
memory reclaim for safe scanning under hierarchy.

In usual, considering shell script,
"please try again if you see -EBUSY at rmdir.
You may see -EBUSY at rmdir even if it seems you can do it."
is very unuseful.

This patch tries to fix -EBUSY behavior. memcg's pre_destroy() works pretty
fine and retrying rmdir() is O.K.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

---
include/linux/cgroup.h | 5 +++++
kernel/cgroup.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
mm/memcontrol.c | 9 ++++++---
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7/include/linux/cgroup.h
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7.orig/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -368,6 +368,11 @@ struct cgroup_subsys {
int disabled;
int early_init;
/*
+ * set if subsys may retrun EBUSY while there are no tasks and
+ * subsys knows it's very temporal reference.
+ */
+ int retry_at_rmdir_failure;
+ /*
* True if this subsys uses ID. ID is not available before cgroup_init()
* (not available in early_init time.)
*/
Index: mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7/kernel/cgroup.c
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7.orig/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2503,15 +2503,17 @@ static int cgroup_has_css_refs(struct cg

/*
* Atomically mark all (or else none) of the cgroup's CSS objects as
- * CSS_REMOVED. Return true on success, or false if the cgroup has
+ * CSS_REMOVED. Return 0 on success, or false error code if the cgroup has
* busy subsystems. Call with cgroup_mutex held
*/

static int cgroup_clear_css_refs(struct cgroup *cgrp)
{
- struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
+ struct cgroup_subsys *ss, *failedhere;
unsigned long flags;
bool failed = false;
+ int err = -EBUSY;
+
local_irq_save(flags);
for_each_subsys(cgrp->root, ss) {
struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = cgrp->subsys[ss->subsys_id];
@@ -2521,6 +2523,7 @@ static int cgroup_clear_css_refs(struct
refcnt = atomic_read(&css->refcnt);
if (refcnt > 1) {
failed = true;
+ failedhere = ss;
goto done;
}
BUG_ON(!refcnt);
@@ -2548,7 +2551,13 @@ static int cgroup_clear_css_refs(struct
}
}
local_irq_restore(flags);
- return !failed;
+
+ if (failed) {
+ if (failedhere->retry_at_rmdir_failure)
+ err = -EAGAIN;
+ } else
+ err = 0;
+ return err;
}

static int cgroup_rmdir(struct inode *unused_dir, struct dentry *dentry)
@@ -2556,9 +2565,10 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct inode *un
struct cgroup *cgrp = dentry->d_fsdata;
struct dentry *d;
struct cgroup *parent;
+ int ret;

/* the vfs holds both inode->i_mutex already */
-
+retry:
mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
if (atomic_read(&cgrp->count) != 0) {
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
@@ -2579,12 +2589,20 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct inode *un
mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
parent = cgrp->parent;

- if (atomic_read(&cgrp->count)
- || !list_empty(&cgrp->children)
- || !cgroup_clear_css_refs(cgrp)) {
+ if (atomic_read(&cgrp->count) || !list_empty(&cgrp->children)) {
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
return -EBUSY;
}
+ ret = cgroup_clear_css_refs(cgrp);
+ if (ret == -EBUSY) { /* really busy */
+ mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
+ return ret;
+ }
+ if (ret == -EAGAIN) { /* subsys asks us to retry later */
+ mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
+ cond_resched();
+ goto retry;
+ }

spin_lock(&release_list_lock);
set_bit(CGRP_REMOVED, &cgrp->flags);
Index: mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7/mm/memcontrol.c
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -723,7 +723,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
{
struct mem_cgroup *victim;
unsigned long start_age;
- int ret, total = 0;
+ int ret = 0;
+ int total = 0;
/*
* Reclaim memory from cgroups under root_mem in round robin.
*/
@@ -732,8 +733,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
while (time_after((start_age + 2UL), root_mem->scan_age)) {
victim = mem_cgroup_select_victim(root_mem);
/* we use swappiness of local cgroup */
- ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(victim, gfp_mask, noswap,
- get_swappiness(victim));
+ if (victim->res.usage)
+ ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(victim, gfp_mask,
+ noswap, get_swappiness(victim));
css_put(&victim->css);
total += ret;
if (mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(root_mem))
@@ -2261,6 +2263,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys mem_cgroup_subsys =
.populate = mem_cgroup_populate,
.attach = mem_cgroup_move_task,
.early_init = 0,
+ .retry_at_rmdir_failure = 1,
.use_id = 1,
};



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